Benefiting from the worldly inventions of disbelievers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this questioner says: How do we benefit from the worldly matters and progress of the disbelievers without falling into what undermines the creed?
Answer:
This is permissible, meaning industries, inventions, clothing, fabrics, cars, and airplanes. These have become for the Muslims.[Al-A'raf 7:32] Their origin belongs to the Muslims. The disbelievers participated with them in this world, but in the Hereafter it will be exclusively for them; the disbelievers will not share in it with them.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this questioner says: How do we benefit from the worldly matters and progress of the disbelievers without falling into what undermines the creed?
Answer:
This is permissible, meaning industries, inventions, clothing, fabrics, cars, and airplanes. These have become for the Muslims.
Say, "Who has forbidden the adornment of Allah which He has produced for His servants and the good [lawful] things of provision?" Say, "They are for those who believe during the worldly life [but] exclusively for them on the Day of Resurrection."
قُلْ مَنْ حَرَّمَ زِينَةَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي أَخْرَجَ لِعِبَادِهِ وَالطَّيِّبَاتِ مِنَ الرِّزْقِ قُلْ هِيَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا خَالِصَةً يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 52 من 76/شرح فتح المجيد لشرح كتاب التوحيد/اتخاذ القبور مساجد/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:02:23)
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